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�that locality it has a co-tidal phenomenon of four [underlined] small tides daily -- Vineyard Sound, Buzzards Bay and the Atlantic contribute to this oscillation of the waters -- mean rise and fall about three feet -- no other island in that region (Nantucket or Block) has this peculiarity. Tooker [?] did not know this. The name was therefore correctly interpreted grammatically by a student -- a real one -- and it fitted the crime. "Amid the Tides," as I gave it, is not only a true picture, but the Indians knew their onions in giving it. My